Why I left the Democratic Party

Obama asked Congress to pass a bill on DACA MANY times.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-move-to-shield-millions-from-deportation-is-lawful/

The DNC is taking a page from the republican playbook and using the spending bill to get what they want. You know the answer to your question already, but you like to pretend that only the opposing side does anything wrong.

I didn't like it when the republicans did it. I don't like it now either. But there's not secret as to why they're doing it.

f I were in charge, I'd have a path of citizenship for every immigrant that can step foot on American soil (but especially DREAMERs who were brought here through no fault of their own).

I believe immigrants make America the glorious place that it is.

I think the birth-lottery is a shitty reason to deny someone the freedoms and society that they want to live in.

Who is responsible for the result of a failed attempt at extortion? The party that tried it, or the party that refused to give in to it?

“Stop the obstruction. Stop the games. There’s no good reason to punish children,” said House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) on Wednesday night. “Not only are they voting to shut down the government, they’re voting to deny children access to critical health care when they need it.”

“CHIP should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 Day, or short term, extension!” Trump wrote.

You don't think that you were lucky to be born in America, versus say, Iran?

I thank my lucky stars almost every day that I was born in a country and in a situation that gave me opportunity to do well.

Have you ever heard the phrase "he was born on third base and celebrates like he hit a triple"

I know! Bernie is a dangerous communist bent on taking away good people's porsches.

A pitty that so many Americans agree with his policies, and did not vote for your favorite corporate spokeperson.

I know! Bernie is a dangerous communist bent on taking away good people's porsches.

A pitty that so many Americans agree with his policies, and did not vote for your favorite corporate spokeperson.

So many Americans agree with his policies and don't have an understanding of how much their own taxes would have to go up to give away all the free stuff he wants to give away.

We already have the Green Party. It is failing to attract very much support from the people.

“Nothing that [Clinton] did was more clear than the NATO coalition that she built to defend civilians in Libya,” said Sloat, referencing the Obama administration’s overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. That policy, spearheaded by Clinton, has transformed a once-stable state into a lawless haven for extremist groups from across the region, including ISIS.

Kagan has advocated for muscular American intervention in Syria; Clinton’s likely pick for Pentagon chief, Michelle Flournoy, has similarly agitated for redirecting U.S. airstrikes in Syria toward ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“I know Hillary cares more about Ukraine than the current president does,” Kagan replied. “[Obama] said to me [that he wouldn’t arm Ukraine because] he doesn’t want a nuclear war with Russia,” he added, rolling his eyes dismissively. “I don’t think Obama cares about Putin anymore at all. I think he’s hopeless.”

She was warhawk talking against Iran and Russia, among others. She was pushing boots on the ground in Syria.
She's the unadulterated darling of the military industrial complex.

What's the knock, here? That the Dems have changed their views on issues over times, in response to their base changing their views, or that they are all (including the base) just a bunch of hypocrites, who don't really care about sexual abuse at all?

You know Cyclops,

1) people NEVER change their minds on societal issues.
2) people don't change their opinions with age.
3) democrats born in the 80's and 90's (even the 2000's right now) who were 8 years old when this happened and were more concerned about afternoon cartoons MUST be saddled with all the wrongs of the past.

The election of Obama seemed to drive even moderate Republicans over the edge into hysterical hatred and opposition, egged on by the so-called tea party, which consisted entirely of people who knew absolutely nothing about government or policy except that they were mad as hell.

Afghanistan is a true mess.  Now entering its 17th year, the war in that infamous graveyard of empires has left the U.S. military short on answers.
Afghan Security Forces (ASF), the foundation of American “strategy” there, are being killed and wounded at an unsustainable rate.  And all that sacrifice — to the tune of perhaps 20,000 ASF casualties annually — has delivered precious little in the way of stability.  More Afghan provinces and districts are contested or under direct Taliban control today than at any time in these years of American intervention.  Corruption is still endemic in the government and the military and few rural Afghans seem to consider the regime in Kabul legitimate.
It’s all been so futile that it borders on the absurd.  Without an indefinite influx of Western money, training, and logistical support, the Afghan government simply cannot hold out.  Despite the efforts of hundreds of thousands of American troops and countless bureaucrats, Washington has never been able to deal with or alter the essential quandary that lies at the heart of the Afghan mission: the Taliban still counts on sanctuary in the tribal borderlands of Pakistan and so long as that’s available — and it seems it will be in perpetuity — there is no way to militarily defeat them.  Besides, the Taliban harbor no discernible transnational aspirations and most al-Qaeda operatives have long since left Afghanistan’s mountains for other locales throughout the Greater Middle East.
Mr. Trump’s generals and their troops on the ground have no answers to these confounding challenges.  One thing is guaranteed: 3,000, or even 50,000 more troops won’t break the stalemate, nor will loosing some of the last Vietnam-era B-52s to bomb the countryside.  When I last surged into Afghanistan myself in 2011-2012, I was joined by more than 100,000 fellow Americans.  It didn’t matter.  We achieved about as much as this current “strategy” will: stasis.

When it comes to Syria, can anyone articulate a coherent strategy in the devastated ruins of that country amid a byzantine network of factions, terror groups, and the once again ascendant government and military of Bashar al-Assad?

U.S.-sponsored, mainly Kurdish forces, backed by American air power and artillery, seized ISIS’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa, and helped turn the militants of the Islamic State back into a guerilla force. Now what? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Syrian President Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Iranians all loathe the Kurds and are none-too-keen to allow them any form of long-term autonomy.

Washington’s efforts in Yemen and North Africa have been and continue to be nothing if not counterproductive. In Yemen, the United States is complicitin the Saudi blockading and terror bombing of the poorest Arab state and a resultant famine and cholera outbreak that could affect millions, especially children. This campaign isn’t winning America any friends on the “Arab street” and only seems to have empowered al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

In Africa, from Nigeria to Somalia, infusions of U.S. troops have not measurably improved regional stability. Quite the opposite, despite the protestations of U.S. Africa Command. In fact, there are now more radical Islamist groups than ever before and terrorist attacks have all but exploded on that continent.

Not really, the reality is if ever a day comes when we have universal health care, the Insurance companies and their employees are going to be without a job regardless any motives people in congress may have had to vote against it. Hopefully if that day comes, we would have some kind of plan in place to deal with the loss of an entire industry and their employees.

For instance on bipartisanship. This is an obsolete idea. You can't work with this crop of republicans. They are brain dead. Obama tried to work with them for 8 years and couldn't get anything done.